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Which ear is the gay earrg? You might rell hearg that if a man wore an earrg on the right ear, that meant he was gay. At the same time, the left ear is straight.

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Per one meme, the earrg is favor among “gays, micians, artists, goths, skaters, and bisexuals, ” or, as one earrg-wearer phrased , “creative souls Bhwick and the East Village. Troy, a graphic signer spotted at a gay bar, lled his sgle earrg a “female repellent” and said that he chose to pierce his right ear — the “gay” ear, acrdg to the historil trope — to dite his queer sexualy.

I’m a gay wch, ’” he said. Neverthels, today’s sgle dangly earrg tends to rist intarian labels, and many of the sourc terviewed said they hadn’t thought about the “gay ear” sce llege, or public high school the 90s. Phillip Pirdi, edor chief of Out magaze, quipped, “I am about as gay as the day is long, so both of my ears are my gay ears.

WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EARRG? WHICH EAR IS THE STRAIGHT EAR?

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In the distant past of 1993, gay marriage wasn’t legal any state the untry. Sodomy laws all over Ameri attempted to outlaw gay sex by crimalizg any oral or anal erotic ntact. And Dan Savage, a sex-advice lumnist then only known to rears of a few pennt alt-newspapers around the untry, was pable of makg breakout news wh a sndalo revelatn: Mattel’s latt Ken doll, part of the Earrg Magic le of Barbie toys, was openly moled on gay fashn.

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“For about a year every gay boy at a rave was wearg at least one, ” Savage wrote. “What the ltle girls were seeg, and tellg Mattel was ol, wasn’t what their relatns were wearg — unls they had hip queer relativ — but the homoerotic fashns and imagery they were seeg on MTV, what they saw Madonna’s dancers wearg her ncerts and films and, as happens, what ACT UP/Queer Natn fags and dyk were wearg to mos and rav, ” Savage wrote.

It was long thought of as beg a way of sayg you weren’t gay, wh the right ear beg the “gay ear” when me to piercgs.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

While rock stars were most likely to sport the sgle earrg the 1960’s, beme more mon among gay people. The perceptn started that the right ear was the “gay ear”, so some folks began g the right ear earrg as a subtle way of showg their gay stat to other gay mal.

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